On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 15:05 -0800, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:Spot on.
Renaming 'root' is full of pitfalls.
Software commonly installs files symbolically root:root not 0:0.
Scripts...
/etc/init.d/identd: chown root:root /etc/identd.key
Dozens and dozens of places.....
Sorry Mitch, your interpretation of this is not correct.
If root isn't UID 0 in /etc/passwd (or wherever the user data is held), how is Mitch's example of "chown root:root /etc/identd.key" going to work?
Answer: it isn't. Error message "no such user".
Paul.
